Sunday, February 26

Thought

of the Day

the Draft

in here is getting noticeable.
the Pope, Fukuyama, and now William F. Buckley!?!?

Whistlin' whilst Rome burns....

Bode Well?

Bode Miller On 0 For 5 Olympic Bust: "Man, I Rocked Here"... "It's Been An Awesome Two Weeks"...Posted on February 25, 2006 at 10:38 AM.
Unbent, unbowed and ultimately unsuccessful, Bode Miller said in an interview Saturday he is skiing away from these Olympics on his own terms -- content without any medals and impressed by the local nightlife.
"I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here," Miller said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press soon after he skidded off the slalom course in his fifth and final race, completing an 0-for-the-Olympics.

Eco Print

Repair your DNA!?!? Put that in your Wheaties. While savoring scrumptious vittles from 15oo miles away, you might consider this...
I may have posted the link to this before, but frankly me dear, I don't give a damn.
Today I tried fer the hell of it a comparison. Posting the same (myself) info from the country I now live (1) and the country I have recently wanted to live, and may yet(2). Conclusion?
Well, my print over there was less than a third of what it is here in merry old USA. Food for thought.

Hellooo?

Hot and Bothered
The administration, politicians, CEO's, sports heroes, celebrities and a goodly portion of 'ol USA:
Just Deny It.
La de Da~

And now, our daily metaphor for society as we know it, comes in a story from the Midwest...
Deer Die After Antlers Lock During Combat
Fri Feb 24, 7:44 PM ET
A pair of deer died in a northern Indiana pond after their antlers were locked during combat. Later this year, if all goes well, their intertwined antlers will be on display at Potawatomi Wildlife Park in southern Marshall County.
Bill and Peggy Maki of Fort Wayne found the two 12-point bucks Feb. 11 during a walk in some woods on property belonging to Wayne Bessinger, a member of the wildlife park's board.
The deer hadn't been dead long when they were found, The Rochester Sentinel reported in a story Thursday.
"They broke through the ice," Bessinger said of the bucks. "Their horns was locked and they stumbled down to the pond and the ice broke through and they drowned."
Bessinger ignored the cold and waded into the pond about 30 miles south of South Bend to retrieve the bodies.
"When I pulled them up on shore, I couldn't believe it," he said.
The antlers would have to be cut or broken to be separated. Bessinger is having them mounted in their fighting posture and plans to exhibit them at the wildlife park.
He estimates the display, which should be ready by late summer, will cost about $6,000.

Always end on a financial note!
I take note in the fact that death came by drowning (in combat), not freezing.

Thursday, February 23

reason # 7 why poor people can't have health care

So, rather than pay for nutritional education early in life, we're going to cover surgery that risks DEATH. God damn! Americans are phuct. I have to fight to get insurance to pay $50/hr for physical therapy, but they'll now cover a $20,000 surgery - you know where they CUT YOU OPEN, so really, really, fat people don't have to excercise so much. But, to give people nutritional therapy, you'd have to tell them to STOP EATING MACDONALDS, and THEN who would make the money? Feed the masses crap to create industry to generate wealth.

By the way Jesse - I heard that a Sunflower store opened up on Colorado and I-25. Beware corporatization of grassroots - Remeber, Nirvana used to be alternative.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101664.html/

Monday, February 20

Blowback













One more reason to muzzle 'environmental wackos' and scientists.
How's that case of ulcerative colitis, Tony?

Sometimes when you're spreadin' Freedom around the world, God gets pissed at the inequity.

Saturday, February 18

Hmm


Sleep On It

No, Really

Meditation a happy 'medium'?

Friday, February 17

a Perspective

Per many conversations I've shared, this article digs at that aint-goin-away crow over the shoulder of Americans: waste/trash/garbage/refuse.
Of course my siblings and I grew up adjacent to, among other delights, a dump. I have many memories, scars, and opinions that were concieved in that fetid mess.
A couple of good looking books have come out recently on the subject, and I will post them here in the interest of, as always, discussion
Yours in provocation,
J

Japan, ahead of the curve

Hai

Thursday, February 16

Tuesday, February 14

US of Amnesia

Now that the American BAR has been raised (staking that the Prez has exceeded the Constitution), perhaps the slumbering giant will stir.
Nat Hentoff

Our a"addiction to oil" means different things to different leaders.

Flashback '99

Truer words were never spoken. Ahem. Except once or twice, in the din.

Friday, February 10

Midwest

Wherever you are, there you go. Thought middle america was safe from change? If this winter's weather hasn't shook ya up, the future just might.

Friday, February 3

Under Advisement

With great fanfare the other day, Oprah Winfrey asked James Frey a question that mainstream journalists refuse to ask George W. Bush: "Why would you lie?"

Perhaps that's rude or something. Been Gored?
'Bout Lestered?
As long as I'm just talking to myself, here....

Coalition of the Willing

You're from the Kingdom of Heaven? Welcome to Hell.

Teflon

Actual government leadership!
Thanks to consumer pressure...

Hybrids

Reportage leaves something to be desired; politics is all elbows; so lets attempt to get it straight...

Wednesday, February 1

O how right you are, sir

"The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim" (1922).
-the inimitable Warren G. Harding